According to local publication New Vision Online, several of the suspects met the woman at a nightclub, and after she got drunk, they allegedly cut off her head and genitals, and also discarded her legs in a latrine.

A special police unit has been created to address ritual murders and to educate traditional healers and the public. Many people in the region believe that potions made from human body parts are able to bestow luck.

In February in Saudi Arabia, a woman was convicted and jailed for witchcraft and sentenced to death by decapitation after several men said that they became “impotent after being bewitched by her” and accused her of committing adultery with “evil spirits.”

But the hysteria that her death provoked did not reach the same level as in now-infamous Salem, Mass., where 20 people total were killed in mass panic that was triggered in January 1692 when the mysterious illnesses of a daughter and niece of the town reverend were blamed on sorcery.